Tagged Antarctica

Scientists are predicting that a massive iceberg, 2,000 square miles in area and roughly the size of Delaware, will soon break off of Antarctica, floating into the Weddell Sea near the tip of South America. A c...

In a dramatic display of the effects of climate change on the planet, plant life has begun developing faster in Antarctica, according to a new study. Banks of moss are growing on the northern peninsula of the c...

The Halley VI Antarctic research station will temporarily shut down from March to November, according to an press release from the British Antarctic Survey. The decision was made after growing cracks in the ice...

An airborne survey and radar data carried out by NASA scientists state Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Antarctica is disintegrating very fast, and this thinning process might be final in the coming years, leading to ...

The frozen, barren continent of Antarctica may have experienced its hottest day ever earlier this week as the mercury hit 17 C (or 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit) on March 24. This could be the hottest ever for the co...

2014 is a watershed year and it will be remembered eons later as a year when mankind irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise....

Some U.S. ocean researchers, while on a mission to understand something about the rising sea levels, encountered something they didn't expect. The scientists discovered a rare type of fish that subsisted in a p...

Researchers have found that the rise in temperatures is resulting in ice melting on the West Antarctic shelf. The ice cap on the southern continent, which is about 2100 metres in thickness, and contains 70 perc...

SeaBED, a submersible robot powered by Linux, was recently used to scan the huge frozen ice sheets across Antarctica. That has helped scientists get detailed and high-resolution 3-D maps of the frozen continent...

A notebook from Robert Scott’s Antarctic expedition has been found after a hundred years, trapped in the ice of the frozen continent, New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust said. It belonged to scientist George...